Can any member post whistle sheet music for “John Barleycorn” and “Paddy’s Leather Breeches”?
Both are, I believe, public domain. Thanks!
John Barleycorn
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=back.numachi.com:8000/dtrad/abc_dtrad.tar.gz/abc_dtrad/JBARLEY/0000
Paddy’s Leather Breeches
http://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=thesession.org/tunes/2161.no-ext/0001
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Paddy’s Leather Breeches is a very common Highland pipe tune.
What’s odd is that Highland pipers think of it as being “Irish” but in 40 years of playing Irish Traditional Music on whistle, Irish flute, and uilleann pipes and attending thousands of Irish music sessions and owning a large number of ITM albums I’ve never heard an ITM musician play it.
Specifically, Highland pipers play that tune for Scottish Highland Dancers when they’re doing the “Irish jig”. The “Irish jig” as done in Scottish Highland Dancing is bizarre and doesn’t resemble actual Irish dancing in the least.
Another thing about that tune is that people think of it as being a minor tune, and on the Highland pipes they play it in B, which gives a minor scale on the Highland chanter, but in reality the tune has no 3rd degree and thus is neither Major nor minor. It can be played in A on the Highland pipes just as well, better in fact.
Here it is, the Highland pipe tune Paddys Leather Breeches, and the Scottish Highland dance which it’s played for
You learn something new every day.
The skirt flipping makes it a lot more entertaining! 